Adjusted For Inflation
In 1993, in the Preface for Excel 5 Power Programming With VBA, I asked for reader feedback, and wrote:
Of course I would prefer to receive comments like, "This is the best book I've ever read" or "Thanks to this book, I was promoted and now make $150,000 per year."
In the second edition of that book, I raised the salary to $175,000. In the Excel 2000 edition, the salary expectation (inexplicably) went down to $85,000. In the Excel 2002 edition, it went up to $90,000. It increased again in the Excel 2003 edition, up to $105,000. In the Excel 2007 edition, the salary expectation rose to $112,000. In the Excel 2010 edition, it will be $124,000.
Here's how it looks graphically:
I wish I could remember why I reduced it for the Excel 2000 edition. Maybe someone told me that the salary was unrealistic.
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